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General:

Bias:

Tactical framing (focus on partisanship/politics of an issue rather than the specifics/substance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpqFaf8vQfk

Study links U.S. political polarization to TV news deregulation following Telecommunications Act of 1996: https://archive.ph/wip/tVvRC

Media bias comparison chart: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart-2/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sources-for-review/

Check the political bias of subreddits and twitter users: https://ground.news/blindspotter/reddit

90% of American media controlled by 6 corporations.

Comparison of liberal vs conservative news feeds; exposing the bubbles people live in: http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/

The science of protecting people's feelings: why we pretend all opinions are equal: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/10/the-science-of-protecting-peoples-feelings-why-we-pretend-all-opinions-are-equal/

As Democratic Voters Shift Left, ‘Liberal Media’ Keep Shifting Right: http://fair.org/home/as-democratic-voters-shift-left-liberal-media-keep-shifting-right/

Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss reasons for media bias (including bias against Sanders in 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Ia02L1qQo&t=2s

We in the media suck because we have rewarded their (GOP) rampant dishonesty and buffoonery with nonstop news coverage. Which, of course, has encouraged more dishonesty and buffoonery: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lessons-learned/2015/10/29/7d23d98e-7e78-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html

GOP's defense when getting fact-checked is accusations of "liberal media bias". Dems do not do the same thing when asked hard questions. GOP CNBC debate; "gotcha questions": https://archive.ph/wip/Us1t2

How the media has helped normalize the GOP crazy: https://archive.ph/wip/DaZae

Summary/comparison of news channels: https://archive.ph/wip/uwX0k

Credder.com - review site for news media. AMA: https://archive.ph/wip/96WEr

Multiple: https://archive.is/M5XAg

Censorship:

Great breakdown on free speech, state censorship, corporate censorship, the first amendment, and reasons for the left-wing to be anti-censorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNtdXdALsTQ

Fake news sites:

NYT covers fake news on facebook during 2016 election: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-in-denial.html

Denver Post showing an example of fake site called "Denver Guardian": http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/05/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-denver-guardian/

Reddit user's list of fake sites: https://archive.ph/7ApK4

BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo

Fake news outperformed real news on facebook in final months of 2016 election: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook

Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me

We at PropOrNot have thus far identified over 200 websites that reliably echo Russian propaganda: http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html

Fox News:

Fox News is intentional misinformation, anti-intellectualism, lies, malicious distortion, ignorant, belligerent, bigoted, spreading of irrational fear, for the purpose of propaganda.

Summary comment: https://archive.is/5LFXr

Summary comment 2: https://archive.fo/ecwyn

https://old.reddit.com/r/FoxFiction/

These Studies Show How 'The Fox Effect' Pushed Congress, Country To The Right: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bartlett-fox-news-effect-politics-elections

Consuming content from Fox News is associated with decreased knowledge of science and society (2020) https://www.psypost.org/2020/07/consuming-content-from-foxnews-com-is-associated-with-decreased-knowledge-of-science-and-society-57499 - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1532673X20915222

Study: watching Fox News makes you less informed than watching no news at all. Fox has the most misinformed viewers. Answer fewer questions correctly than those that don't watch news: http://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5

The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers Are the Most Misinformed: http://www.alternet.org/media/science-fox-news-why-its-viewers-are-most-misinformed

Top fact-checking group finds 60% of Fox News' claims they investigated were false: http://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/2ag3x7/pants_on_fire_top_factchecking_group_finds_60/ – http://www.mintpressnews.com/pants-on-fire-analysis-shows-60-of-fox-news-facts-are-really-lies/205563/

A History Of Dishonest Fox Charts https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/01/a-history-of-dishonest-fox-charts/190225

Vine of 50 Fox News lies: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/feb/26/fact-checks-behind-daily-shows-50-fox-news-lies/

Jon Stewart on Late Show exposes Fox News double talk & bias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNiqpBNE9ik&t=4m40s

Another bias comparison: https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/974450928714747906?s=09

How Fox News Covered Michelle Obama vs. Melania Trump | NowThis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VeNB5ili8

More exposing Fox News bias: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3BD2524FE99BD4D&feature=plcp

Inside the unprecedented partnership between Fox News and the Trump White House (Mar 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGde1ZXPi10

It’s time — high time — to take Fox News’s destructive role in America seriously (Mar 2019): https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time--high-time--to-take-fox-newss-destructive-role-in-america-seriously/2019/03/07/aeb83282-40cc-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html

Fox & right wing media spreading lies, disinformation, and demonization of the poor: http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/12/23/the-year-in-right-wing-media-poor-shaming/207639

Fox News wonders whether we should cancel food stamps because 0.09% of spending is fraudulent: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/28/fox-news-wonders-if-we-should-cancel-food-stamps-since-0-09-percent-of-spending-is-fraudulent/

Fox News Analyst: Deadly Meningitis Outbreak Demonstrates Need for Less Government Regulation https://old.reddit.com/r/Health/comments/118z66/fox_news_analyst_deadly_meningitis_outbreak/

Fox News mocks woman on minimum wage who can’t afford food: It’s the ‘lifestyle you chose’: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/fox-news-mocks-woman-on-minimum-wage-who-cant-afford-food-its-the-lifestyle-you-chose/

Fox blames Obamacare "death panels" for reduced cancer treatments caused by budget cuts: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/05/fox-blames-obamacare-death-panels-for-reduced-c/193493

Fox News uses misleading statistics to push an authoritarian agenda: http://www.salon.com/2017/07/06/fox-news-uses-misleading-statistics-to-push-an-authoritarian-agenda/

Fox lies in headline about illegal immigrants serving on juries: http://youtu.be/xDAdA1vSTqk

Atheists shouldn’t have rights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie2-12sSyKI

Fox news bias: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbRP5aOHK3d2nPbBFeC9yDxRwVMRy4Hph

List/archive: http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/clicks/index.php?search=fox

Bill O'Reilly: http://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/19c0ew/bill_oreilly_implied_that_president_obama_is/c8mt0e6

Rachel Maddow rips Fox News’ Megyn Kelly for made-up Colorado vote fraud ‘scandal’: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/rachel-maddow-rips-fox-news-megyn-kelly-for-made-up-colorado-vote-fraud-scandal/

Propaganda in action: Conservative sites conjure up hysteria by lying about legal ballot delivery by hispanic man: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/a-hispanic-man-delivers-absentee-ballots-and-now-conservatives-want-him-dead/

Fox guest: Keep discrimination legal because Bible tells businesses not to hire atheists: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/fox-guest-keep-discrimination-legal-because-bible-tells-businesses-not-to-hire-atheists/

Obama’s foot on the desk – http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428995/september-11-2013/barack-obama-s-footgate---secret-muslim-code

Obama is a liberal, european elitist because he wanted Dijon mustard on his hamburger: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2t2i4w/paris_mayor_we_intend_to_sue_fox_news/cnv7e0m

War on everything: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2t2i4w/paris_mayor_we_intend_to_sue_fox_news/cnv4qwh

Fox News won a court case by 'persuasively' arguing that no 'reasonable viewer' takes Tucker Carlson seriously (Sep 2020) https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9

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